Organisation profile

Bitmovin was founded in 2013, after the founders’ research on the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard at the University of Klagenfurt. Bitmovin was part of the YCombinator programme and secured an investment round with Highland Europe venture capital fund as main investor. In 2014 the company was a top 100 online media company. Today it has over 150 employees all over the world, and offices in San Francisco, Denver, London, Berlin, Klagenfurt and Vienna. The company is also investing heavily in research and development to be always ahead of the trends. It has teamed up with the University of Klagenfurt in the ATHENA project.

Field of expertise: products and services essential to value-added benefit

Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company which provides services that transcode digital video and audio to streaming formats using cloud computing, and streaming media players. The company has been at the forefront of industry innovation and all major developments in the digital video streaming industry. Bitmovin built the world’s first commercial adaptive streaming player and deployed the first software-defined encoding service that runs on any cloud platform. Its cloud-native technology offers the most flexible and scalable media encoding, playback, and analytical solutions available with unparalleled device reach, ease of integration, and world-class customer support.